Africa's first World Cup is not faring so well for the African teams. The New York Times: "Cameroon and Nigeria have both lost their first two games, and South Africa has only a single point. ... Ghana still has a fighting chance to move on to the elimination rounds."

And: The continent's second football powerhouse, the Ivory Coast, lost as expected to global football powerhouse Brazil. The score was 3-1.

Cameroon is Africa's modern World Cup trailblazer. The team qualified for their first finals in Spain in 1982 and reached the quarters in 1990. But it was just not meant to be Saturday night at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, reports the Hindustan Times. "Despite taking the lead through skipper and three-time African Footballer of the Year Samuel Eto'o with a coolly taken goal after 10 minutes, Cameroon failed to capitalise on any of the dozen chances they created." Denmark waited and regrouped to win, 2-1.

My first reaction is that crying seems extreme when it’s just over a game.

But then again, if you come from a country that has been kept down by the same corrupt dictator for more than 27 straight years, you might invest a lot of emotion and pride in your nation’s soccer team, too.

In the U.S., where the full extent of our corruption hasn’t quite sunk in yet, men don’t cry. They just get drunk and yell at the Super Bowl.

If you ever watch football or basketball at the college level you will often see guys cry when they loose a big game. You may also see Pro athletes cry if they loose the super bowl also. Sports is the only time that a man can cry without questions.

I have to say that I would love to help make the team feel better....They were looking hot in those fitted uniforms. I needed to go meet my family to celebrate father's day and I could not leave the house. Between Cameroon and the Ivory Coast, I couldn't leave the TV today.

I agree with Butchie... Football is a sport where EVERY country competes starting with the preliminaries and ending with the wrold cup. Coupled with th fact that many countries have players who play and STAR ( like ETO above)professionally in the big leagues like Serie A,Premier in England, the german league etc... the world cup represents a time that these players can shine for their home countries. So when they fail it is very painful...

Anyway the Africans ( ALL of them are looking hawt!) and they can cry on my shoulder or just moan while I attend to them LOL